Removing a file with unclear license from kdesdk

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Pino,

[Disclaimer: I am not part of the release-team]

On 14-04-13 13:16, Pino Toscano wrote:
> while reviewing copyright for newer versions of kdesdk, we found out 
> that one of the files, scripts/add_trace.pl, has an unclear license:
> | ## Written by David Faure <faure at kde.org>, licensed under 
> pizzaware. and there's no associated text on what it would imply.

Please make sure that this is also filed as a bug in the bts. It makes
tracking of such issues a lot easier. Mails like this one might just
slip through.

And please get in contact with the author, to clear this up.

> This script is not installed, so it is not part of any binary
> package we currently ship. Would you, release-team, allow an upload
> of kdesdk only dropping this file from the source (which is already
> +dfsg)?

Although indeed this license is not clear, I *assume* (which is not
enough of course) that the license is a variant of the beerware license,
which AFAICT is free. I am not sure what the standpoint of the RT at
this stage would be regarding this vague license text.

Of course it definitely should be fixed in jessie.

Paul

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